For those of you at last night’s C’s game who were like “who the fuck is Gino and why does everyone have a Gino shirt on!?!?”
Gino is also a well known figure in Boston Celtics lore, regarded by some as an unofficial mascot for the team. Whenever the Celtics start to blow out another team in the final minutes of a home game, the PA monitor will project a late 1970s clip from the popular dance program American Bandstand. In this particular episode a bearded young man noticeably dances his tail off. This man is wearing bell bottoms and a shirt — from musician Gino Vannelli’s mid-1970s Gemini tour — that simply says “Gino” on it. He has forever been a cult favorite of Garden fans. A Boston Globe sports columnist has created a semi-spoof documentary entitled Finding Gino that attempts to track down the man shown in the archival clip, but has yet to meet with success in finding him – Taken from Wikipedia.
P.S. HOW DECENT WAS RONDO’S SHOT OVER THE BACKBOARD!?
